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  • Betabrand flips focus to ‘First Gentleman’ style

    Even before Jackie Kennedy because a presidential style icon, the First Lady has historically been the center of sartorial discussion. Now with presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in contention to serve as the first female president in U.S. history, crowdsourcing fashion platform Betabrand is flipping the focus to the prospect of...

  • Inside the Instagram with WhoWhatWear’s Kat Collings

    A couple of years ago, Buzzfeed, guarantor of viral success, put Who What Wear editorial director Kat Collings in a listicle about the best Instagrammers in fashion. Her following soared from a few hundred to over 10,000 -- today, Collings has over 14,000 followers and an Instagram presence that gives...

  • Gucci e-commerce drives ‘exceptional growth’ for Kering

    Gucci experienced a 17 percent sales increase in the third quarter of 2016, with 50 percent of the uptick coming from e-commerce, the first time Gucci has experienced a double digit percentage sales increase since 2012.

  • Salvatore Ferragamo launches US e-commerce venture

    The Italian retailer announced yesterday that it is offering its women's fall and winter collection online to the U.S. market, after formerly selling only select accessories and footwear on its website. The brand dedicated a section of its site to “shop the look” of model Rose Gilroy, featured in a...

  • Reebok’s Gigi Hadid partnership is its latest influencer marketing push

    Reebok and Gigi Hadid's partnership is another step in the brand's repositioning to be associated with "fitness." Hadid's huge social following also allows it to tap into a new target audience. "For many of them it may be the first time they've engaged with Reebok," Dan Mazei, the brand's newsroom...

  • Social media is forcing women’s health magazines to reinvent

    If you’ve been paying attention to the Health & Fitness section of your local newsstand, you’ve likely noticed some changes: For one, cover lines referencing get-skinny stories are no longer; in their place are teasers about living healthy and learning to love your figure. You can thank social media.

  • John Varvatos is changing how it markets to men

    John Varvatos is the epitome of cool -- and Nate Poeschl is responsible for keeping it that way. The director of digital marketing at the hip men’s brand joined this week’s Glossy Podcast to talk men’s fashion and the need for a more logical fashion production cycle.

  • For a new CFDA effort, alice + olivia channels its inner Basquiat

    Fostering emerging talent has been an ongoing initiative of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and now its efforts include a collaboration between alice + olivia and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

  • Goop’s beauty director: Digital put me out of a job

    Well known beauty writer Jean Godfrey-June joined Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle and e-commerce site just over a year ago as beauty director. She said the internet and rise of digital media ended her magazine career and the biggest challenge is how technology forces everyone to work 24/7.

  • DVF, Mara Hoffman sign on for sustainable capsule collection

    High end fashion brands such as Diane Von Furstenberg and Veronica Beard have teamed up to create a capsule collection with sustainable textile company, Piece & Co, to be sold on online retailer, Shopbop. It's a different approach to becoming a more sustainable industry, when it's ranked the world's second...

  • On the Glossy Podcast: Timo Weiland and Steven Kolb

    Steven Kolb of the CFDA and designer Timo Weiland discuss designer burnout on the Glossy Podcast. So many people entering the industry don’t really understand design, said Kolb. “It’s this notion that if you like fashion you become a creative director,” he said.

  • Birchbox co-founder Katia Beauchamp: ‘We’re more than boxes’

    Let’s get it straight: Birchbox is not a sampling company. That may surprise you: The New York-based beauty firm is perhaps best known for its beautiful boxes of makeup samples that get delivered to customers every month. But Katia Beauchamp, co-founder of Birchbox, is adamant that it’s about much more...